1. Cheap grain prices this summer allowed farmers to feed more hogs to heavier weights, putting more supply on the market, traders said. 2. Cheaper corn, which is the primary ingredient in livestock feed, allows farmers to feed a greater number of animals and expand cattle herds. 3. Farmers are feeding more hogs than a year ago, a government report showed, as cheaper feeding costs and strong pork prices encouraged expansion of herds. 4. For decades British farmers have been feeding their cattle, who are of course herbivores, protein supplements in the form of sheep brains, spine and other parts. 5. For many years in the United States and Europe, farmers have fed animals a product called virginiamycin. 6. Impressed, farmer Olsen fed him with a medicine dropper, and Mike lived another months, sans head, becoming quite famous. 7. In June, the USDA reported that farmers were feeding more hogs than a year ago as cheaper feed prices and strong pork demand encouraged herd expansion. 8. In the pioneer days of Idaho aquaculture, fish farmers fed their trout horse meat, Cope said. 9. Many farmers can no longer feed themselves. 10. The mink farmer did not feed commercial meal to his animals, Marsh said. |